I have a basic gaming setup with an Asus motherboard, AMD CPU, and NVIDIA graphics card, plus two HDDs and an SSD I used for my Windows 11 OS. My PC started lagging a lot when switching between programs, so I tried to figure out why, focusing on my SSD that frequently jumped from 0% to 100% usage. I used Defraggler to 'optimize' my SSD since I like their CCleaner software. After running it, my computer got even slower, eventually froze, and I noticed 0% SSD activity in Task Manager. Now my PC gets stuck after the BIOS loads, and I can only see one of my HDDs in BIOS. Did I ruin my SSD?
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It's possible you may have damaged the SSD through defragmentation. SSDs aren't meant to be defragged; they operate differently than HDDs and can get worn out faster when unnecessary processes are applied. If it wasn't working well already, running defrag could have pushed it to failure.
Yeah, I've heard defragmenting can hurt SSDs, but can it totally ruin one? I figured it would just wear it down a bit.